Mat 3:11, Mar 7:2-5, 8, Joh 2:6, Heb 6:2, 9:10, 13-14, 23, 1Pe 3:21 | ESV | STEP | I baptize you with water for repentance , but he who is coming after me is mightier than I , whose sandals I am not worthy to carry . He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire .

11 ^a“I baptize you with water ^bfor repentance, but ^che who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you ^dwith the Holy Spirit and ^efire.

Mark 7:2-5

2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were ^fdefiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, ^{▼▼Greek unless they wash the hands with a fist, probably indicating a kind of ceremonial washing} holding to ^hthe tradition of ⁱthe elders, 4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. ^{▼▼Greek unless they baptize; some manuscripts unless they purify themselves} And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as ^kthe washing of ^lcups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit and dining couches}) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to ⁿthe tradition of ^othe elders, ^pbut eat with ^qdefiled hands?”

Mark 7:8

8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

John 2:6

6 Now there were six stone water jars there ^rfor the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty ^sgallons. ^{▼▼Greek two or three measures (metrētas); a metrētēs was about 10 gallons or 35 liters}

Hebrews 6:2

2 and of ^uinstruction about washings, ^{▼▼Or baptisms (that is, cleansing rites)} ^wthe laying on of hands, ^xthe resurrection of the dead, and ^yeternal judgment.

Hebrews 9:10

10 but deal only with ^zfood and drink and ^aavarious washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

Hebrews 9:13-14

13 For if ^abthe blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with ^acthe ashes of a heifer, sanctify ^{▼▼Or For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies} for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will ^aethe blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit ^afoffered himself without blemish to God, ^agpurify our ^{▼▼Some manuscripts your} conscience ^aifrom dead works ^ajto serve the living God.

Hebrews 9:23

23 Thus it was necessary for ^akthe copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

1 Peter 3:21

21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, ^alnow saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but ^amas an appeal to God for a good conscience, ^anthrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,